Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of a dive to 28 metres for 27 minutes total , the tissue loading bar graph had filled to within one segment/division of the caution zone . |
| 2 | Vic Wilcox demanded , an hour or so later , when they were back in his office after what he had referred to as ‘ a quick whistle round the works ’ . |
| 3 | Among those instruments were what Van Gelder had referred to as the spy-glass . |
| 4 | How would Silas explain what she herself had referred to as an incident ? she wondered , and , looking up at him , their gaze locked . |
| 5 | With a wry shrug of her slim shoulders Laura made herself a ham sandwich before wandering back into what the estate agent 's particulars had referred to as ‘ a huge reception-room ’ . |
| 6 | Up until then , the Mason , who had jumped from in front of the stage on to it , had gibbered indecisively and looked to Garvey for salvation . |
| 7 | We had to carry in in Winter we had the rainwater off the roofs which filled two brick cisterns for the livestock . |
| 8 | There were the ‘ Carry Ons ’ , a new radio series with Kenneth Horne — Beyond Our Ken had matured into Round The Horne and was better than anything he had done on air before . |
| 9 | I was taken to see the King , but had to wait for at least an hour while he struggled with a difficult mathematical question . |
| 10 | We were at Oxford together , Robert and I , and have often talked the night away in former times , mingling literature and politics and cheap red wine with the cigarette smoke and the laughter and the brittle pile of old Al Bowlly records he had stumbled upon in a junk-shop kept by a one-time Polish airman . |
| 11 | And what on earth Papa would say of that banal piece of wisdom she could not imagine — and why was Papa , whom she had parted from in a high old anger , so much in her thoughts these days ? |
| 12 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 13 | It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals . |
| 14 | Sometimes he wanted to practise , and might well require an hour or so on the putting green , or sometimes he fancied a pint or two of some obscure real ale that he had heard of in the vicinity . |
| 15 | But as we talked the matter over , I thought I heard , in the background , a droning unbodied voice explain that the robbers were young , socially deprived victims of the Thatcherite era of greed and exploitation , not to be blamed for acquiring , by unorthodox means , some of the luxury goods they had heard of from capitalist advertisers who had wickedly aroused their consumerist aspirations . |
| 16 | In or about June 1987 , Mr. Burt met the appellant , whom he said he had heard of from his doing accountancy work for others , and he understood from the appellant , having been shown a curriculum vitae and other documents , that he was an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants , and a graduate or member of the Institute of Marketing . |
| 17 | This privileged memory , spontaneously derived from sense association , is something of course that other writers , such as Châteaubriand , Nerval , Baudelaire , had pointed to before Proust . |
| 18 | Mathers had pointed from behind the windshield . |
| 19 | That was the sort of thing we had to contend with at Ullapool ; no one really wanted us around , it was no wonder that this jewel of the west was most unpopular with our crews . |
| 20 | And er prior to that , researchers had relied on from missionaries , , administrators and travellers and so on , which er mixed quality . |
| 21 | She had trusted him completely ; had given in at once when he had demanded that they get married immediately . |
| 22 | I went there about June , I had to go to about June nineteen thirty one . |
| 23 | When I took him in he was at such a stage he had to go in in a wheelchair . |
| 24 | By 1980 though , the US contribution had fallen to about one sixth , America 's day of being an oil exporter was long gone and oil dependence on the Middle East had begun . |
| 25 | In 1977 , RENFE manual staff worked an average of about seven hours per week overtime , but the figure had fallen to about 4–5 hours per week by 1983 ( based on IGAE 1984 : 14 ) , and total overtime hours were some 15 million for the year ( compared with around 60 million — including Sunday working — in BR ) . |
| 26 | The team found that the supply of fresh water for all purposes in Baghdad had fallen to between 5 and 20 litres per person per day compared with 500 litres before the war , and that diarrhoeal diseases among children had quadrupled . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , it was reported that the number of Palestinians in Kuwait had fallen to between 150,000 and 200,000 ( half the number resident before the Iraqi invasion ) following a mass exodus prompted by fears of continued harassment [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ] . |
| 28 | So he left a very deep impression on me ; it was something I knew I had to work towards in the years ahead . |
| 29 | Furthermore , even if a woman paid in for a full pension she had to pass the ‘ half test ’ ; that is , she had to work for at least half of her married life before she could count in her contributions both before and after marriage ( Groves , 1983 , pp. 45–7 ) . |
| 30 | He began his reign with a splendid procession into Aquitaine as Eleanor 's husband , in the course of which he arranged an inauguration ceremony for himself — either a repeat coronation for the southerners or a service to mark his accession as duke of Aquitaine — in the city of Bordeaux , where no king had penetrated for at least three centuries . |